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In systems engineering, negative feedback is viewed as one form of 'unexpressed system requirement' for that stakeholder. Surprise negative feedback can be even better, as it may b…

My high school math tutor's cute thing to point out was that for asymptotic functions like the graph of y = 1/x [1], since the universe is spherical, the asymtotes will travel off …

This approach is covered extensively in the book 'Getting to Yes And: The Art Of Business Improv' by Bob Kulhan, which is one of the few books I would consider a must read for anyo…

Article is not correct: not every device on the planet will roll over. Many GPS chipsets, such as many uBlox devices, program an offset such as the date of device firmware compilat…

It's cheap but what's the 0power consumption? This tutorial from Eric Tsai covers a similar architecture but a lot more extensible, with a lot more explanation, and each end node c…

'Moar speed' is not really the point of 5g, and as usual the main advantages are not widely talked about because a lot of the media doesn't understand them and how to communicate m…

In some countries, employment law has driven us to this, and it's widely seen as optimisation and culmination of what we know about employment best practice. Some UK examples.. No …

Competancy is assessed at interview, not at sift. The sift simply identifies that candidate meets the minimum possible spec for the role and can be interviewed. They may end up wel…

I hire on anonymized data. I can tell you that it works well. The only flaw is that if your pool of application sifters is not diverse, bias will start to creep back in. For instan…

For thia reason I hire based on anonymized data that also discards all place name locations and institutions. The result is quite effective, as you are presented with an applicatio…

I hire with anonymous data. I would look at a statement like '25 years experience' on a CV and completely ignore it, as I have no idea how competant the candidate is based on this.…

Just a stab, but it could be PTC Creo using wiring looms. Example image of wiring an assembly in Creo: http://www.arbortext.com/-/media/Images/CAD/PTC-Creo-PCX---1... I am not awar…

The best way out of unconscious incompetence is having a mentor, but knowing to get a mentor is often a test of your ego, which can be the hardest part to overcome.

From what I can tell of the latest release trailers it looks to me like the bulk of Laz's work is still in there despite it having 10 years more dev since I played it, a majority b…

Back in 2009 I put several hundred hours into the diablo 2 mod called Median, which turned into Median XL. Should you ever want a successor to Diablo 2 this was it. The craft that …

I was recently trying to find a solution like this after discovering that my car cannot have an aftermarket radio or hud install without ensuing a whole world of pain. The alternat…

I struggle to get creative when constrained to the chair and have noticed I go a lot more frequently to the whiteboard to brainstorm a problem now that I'm already standing at my d…

I am the only person with a standing desk in an open style office layout of a few dozen people, and i can tell you that this anxiety is increased by several orders of magnitude whe…

I have persistently encountered the same problem in this space. Most people I've worked with write documents using the last formatted document they made as a template for the next.…

I wasted so many years trying to learn electronics from books when this is one subject that cannot be mastered without practical work. If reading from books you should at the very …

Can anyone share good sites or resources for a frequent 'technology-watch' of the latest embedded hardware platforms and platform developers such as this? I do a quick scan of the …

> It even has it's own subway covering the whole city! Not the same I know, but Milton Keynes (a UK garden city supposedly planned and designed like an American city) has a mostly …

Credit goes to Hirose for the idea on USB Micro B, as they hint at it their ZX catalogue [1], but logically everything on USB devices is normally a receptacle_ so custom cables rea…